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Written by EVE BYRON, Helena Independent Record
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
Montana’s top wildlife official acknowledged Friday that the state has too many wolves on the landscape, so he’s implementing a new strategy that will allow problem wolves to be killed more quickly by federal agents.
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Written by TOM MORTON, Casper Star-Tribune
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
Anglers will gain permanent access to a mile-long stretch of the North Platte River known for its blue-ribbon trout fishing if the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can swing the funding, the director of the Wyoming office of The Conservation Fund said.
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Written by JOHN M. BRODER, New York Times
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse, a dweller of the high plains of the American West, was facing extinction but would not be designated an endangered species for now.
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Written by NICK GEVOCK, Montana Standard
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
The Obama administration could support the mandate in U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's forest bill to log a set number of acres every year as a pilot project, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said here Saturday.
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Written by BRUCE FINLEY, Denver Post
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
Federal authorities today embarked on a compromise effort to protect the sage grouse as a "candidate" species under the Endangered Species Act.
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Written by ANNETTE CARY, Tri-City Herald
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
The Department of Energy filed a petition to withdraw its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license application for the Yucca Mountain, Nev., radioactive waste repository Wednesday afternoon.
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Written by MEAD GRUBER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
A recent Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality citation is just part of a series of problems Williams Production Co. has had with handling water produced by coal-bed methane wells in the Powder River Basin, state and federal documents show.
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Written by PATRICK REIS, E&E Daily
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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Two House Republicans yesterday introduced legislation that would require the Justice Department to publicly disclose reimbursements it pays out to environmental groups and others that sue the federal government under the Equal Access to Justice Act.
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Written by MATT JOYCE, Business Week
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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Wyoming faces the likelihood of a grasshopper outbreak this summer, which would strain the ability of landowners, county districts and governments to pay for combating the destructive insects, pest control officials said Tuesday.
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Written by NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Los Angeles Times
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
Long frustrated by Washington's control over much of their state, Utah legislators are proposing a novel way to deal with federal land -- seize it and develop it.
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Written by JOE HANEL, Durango Herald News
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
Lawyers for senior water-rights owners sued the state government Monday in La Plata County and five towns, saying the state engineer is failing to protect water-rights owners from gas and oil companies.
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Written by MICHAEL GIBNEY, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
A report released Tuesday by the National Center for Conservation Science and Policy suggests that drought conditions and flammable forest fuels are a more likely contributor to the American Northwest's wildfire rate than an increase in the bark beetle population.
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Written by BRUCE FINLEY, Denver Post
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
Colorado scientists are liquefying crab and shrimp shells shipped from Iceland to produce a serum which, when poured on pine trees, appears to prevent bark beetles from killing the trees.
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Written by MATT JOYCE, Casper Star-Tribune
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
The Wyoming Senate voted Friday to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production, and committees in both legislative chambers advanced new regulations on the state's fledgling wind industry.
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Written by Billings Gazette
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
Bears are beginning to emerge from hibernation in Yellowstone National Park.
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Written by JESSICA FENDER, Denver Post
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
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Lawmakers took their first shot at settling the longstanding dispute over rafts on private property Monday when they passed out of committee a bill to give commercial outfitters the right to float rivers without fear of being sued for trespass by landowners. A bipartisan group of lawmakers voted 7-3 to send the bill forward to a hearing by the full House.
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Written by Billings Gazette
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
A judge in Boise, Idaho, has extended the deadline for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to submit an endangered species finding for the greater sage grouse.
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Written by MEAD GRUVER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
An environmental group has sued seeking federal protection for a high-elevation pine tree devastated in some places in the Rocky Mountains by beetle infestations and fungus.
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Written by TODD ADAMS, Challis Messenger
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
Because there’s evidence that bull trout may not be native to the Little Lost River, a Mackay-area rancher is spearheading an effort to remove the fish from protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Written by JEFF GEARINO, Casper Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
A portion of a century-old cattle ranch in southwest Wyoming will be preserved under a conservation easement, according to Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials.
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